Kaladin’s struggle with guilt over Tien’s death, the deaths of those he felt responsible for, his continued conflict with his father, and other sources of doubt and fatigue have led him down a road to burnout. The result is that she feels like her lack of time as a scholar prevents her from calling herself a true scholar. Instead her responsibilities as wife, mother, and queen has required a more administrative role, which hasn’t allowed her the time to pursue scholarly desires. Navani has spent her life feeling like she hasn’t been able to realize her true calling as a scholar.
But it is these behind-the-scenes interventions that will have the biggest impact on events. Except for Kaladin, their contribution to this conflict’s resolution is not necessarily from the front lines.
This installment is told mainly from Kaladin, Shallan, Nivani, and the Singer Venli’s point-of-view, with a few others for counterpoint. And in usual Sanderson style he takes his time with those revelations, building on them one piece at a time. The fourth book in Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, RHYTHM OF WAR’s installment has some big revelations–less to do with events themselves but more about how we view said events.
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